Ask HN: Preparing slides?

5 points by richo 13y ago ↗ HN

I'm preparing a new talk to deliver, and I've used Prezi before for a shiny slidebuilder.. thing. But I tired of the flash dependency, and untimately, it does a ton of stuff I don't need.

I basically need text and images, but it'd be nice to be in a format I can distribute easily. I'm assuming I'm not the first person to ponder this, so what are you guys using?

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xauronx 13y ago ↗

I've never used it myself but I've heard good things about google's html5 slides.

http://code.google.com/p/html5slides/

Seems like it would fit your easy to distribute requirement too.

richo 13y ago ↗

This looks great! Thanks.

factorialboy 13y ago ↗

Impress.js http://bartaz.github.com/impress.js/#/bored

Like Prezi, but JS

richo 13y ago ↗

Very cool indeed, but not what I'm looking for. I'm trying to focus on the content more than the presentation, but +1 for badass use of html5 + css3

swanson 13y ago ↗

Keynote -> upload to SpeakerDeck

richo 13y ago ↗

I'm trying to move away from proprietary formats where possible, but I'll have a look. Thanks!

anonymouz 13y ago ↗

If it doesn't have to be HTML, LaTeX Beamer works well and lets you create a PDF that is portable and easy to distribute.

shankar1221989 13y ago ↗

I would still recommend slideshare as the best bet. In the first page you can have a QR code. Also all slides can have a shout key (http://shoutkey.com/).